Historical Perspectives on human-ocean interactions: deep understandings for informing ocean futures.

Oceans Past brings together scholars and practitioners interested in documenting and understanding changes in marine systems and human maritime interactions in past decades, centuries and millennia. The 10th Oceans Past Conference will enable continued scholarly networking and international exchange towards a fuller understanding of the past, the present, and potential future trajectories of our marine ecosystems and the human communities that interact with these.

Conference themes

1. How the sea has changed us / how we have changed the sea
2.  Physical and biological drivers in marine ecosystems and populations
3.  Scales of sustainable and unsustainable marine harvesting throughout time
4.  Multidisciplinary perspectives on social and ecological consequences of change
5.  Trajectories and repercussions of management interventions on marine social‐ecological systems through time
6. Lessons from the past for management of coastal zones and the high seas